World Car Free Day on Saturday 22nd September
NigelS, one of the CRA committee members, drew our attention to an article in the Guardian this week, celebrating the pristine air above the Isles of Scilly. It also reminded the reader of Wold...
Tagged: public health
End of month report – July
It’s eerily quiet on the CAP… Our recent direct promptings to the Council’s project team and Mark Shelford, the Cabinet Member for Transport and Environment now lead us to believe that the practicalities...
Catch up on Wera at the Komedia
Further to our report after Wera’s Komedia Event on 9th June, the presentations from the day have been released today by her office. Perhaps as an alternative to the excitement in London SW19...
May is National Walking Month – so what?
We could save 17,000 fossil fuelled journey per day – that’s a 41% reduction. In our view this is a great vision – it’s now just about putting the right carrot and stick...
Poor air quality worse threat than alcohol or obesity
One of our committee members picked out this piece from Saturday’s Guardian. One study suggests that nearly 60% of the UK’s population live in areas where air pollution is above the legal limit. The...
BreATHe2021 – our response
In response to the proposals for a Clean Air Zone to be formed around central Bath, which were released on the 6th April and our attendance at the subsequent briefing, the Committee of...
End of April Report – please follow us
Reading through the last monthly report I’m struck by how much has happened since then. At this time last month we were still awaiting the publication of the Council’s “Clean Air Plan: Strategic Outline Case”. We got...
BreATHe2021 has simplified
Things appear to have simplified – the zone options have reduced to one – the extended option. If so, we are now left with one question – how many types of vehicles will...
Camden rides high
Disappointingly, representatives of just five residents associations, out of 29, managed to attend a workshop run by the Council’s BreATHe2021 project team on 19th April about the proposed Clean Air Zone. Better news...
Exhalation from BreATHe
BreATHe is the cute name for the programme of work B&NES has been compelled to start as a result of the recent High Court Direction. It has to yield results by 2021 so...